Model reference · open weights
Qwen1.5 is an open-weight language model from Qwen. Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat (BF16) weighs 3.7 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.
Summary of the Qwen/Qwen1.5-7B model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.
What it is
| Released by | Qwen |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-01-22 |
| Parameters | 7.7B |
| VRAM | 3.7 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8K each | 32K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB | 4 | 1 | all 32K | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | 6 | 1 | all 32K | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | 11 | 2 | all 32K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | 11 | 2 | all 32K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | 16 | 4 | all 32K | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | 24 | 6 | all 32K | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | 45 | 11 | all 32K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 43 | 10 | all 32K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 53 | 13 | all 32K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 61 | 15 | all 32K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 80 | 20 | all 32K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 103 | 25 | all 32K | 176 GB |
| 2× RTX 3060 12 GB tensor parallel | 11 | 2 | all 32K | 11.6 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB tensor parallel | 16 | 4 | all 32K | 15.4 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 8K tokens each | 32K tokens each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5.9 GB | 10.8 GB |
| 5 | 12.4 GB | 36.5 GB |
| 8 | 17.2 GB | 55.9 GB |
| 16 | 30.1 GB | 107 GB |
| 32 | 55.9 GB | 210 GB |
| 64 | 107 GB | 417 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
Builds
| Build | Params | Precision | Weights | Smallest setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen1.5-7B ↗ | 7.7B | BF16 | 15.4 GB | 2× RTX 3060 12 GB |
| Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat ↗ | 620M | BF16 | 1.2 GB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
| Qwen1.5-32B-Chat ↗ | 32.5B | BF16 | 65.0 GB | H100 80 GB |
| Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat (above) ↗ | 1.8B | BF16 | 3.7 GB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
From the model card
Qwen1.5 is the beta version of Qwen2, a transformer-based decoder-only language model pretrained on a large amount of data. In comparison with the previous released Qwen, the improvements include:
trust_remote_code.For more details, please refer to our blog post and GitHub repo.
Qwen1.5 is a language model series including decoder language models of different model sizes. For each size, we release the base language model and the aligned chat model. It is based on the Transformer architecture with SwiGLU activation, attention QKV bias, group query attention, mixture of sliding window attention and full attention, etc. Additionally, we have an improved tokenizer adaptive to multiple natural languages and codes. For the beta version, temporarily we did not include GQA (except for 32B) and the mixture of SWA and full attention.
The code of Qwen1.5 has been in the latest Hugging face transformers and we advise you to install transformers>=4.37.0, or you might encounter the following error:
KeyError: 'qwen2'.
We do not advise you to use base language models for text generation. Instead, you can apply post-training, e.g., SFT, RLHF, continued pretraining, etc., on this model.
If you find our work helpful, feel free to give us a cite.
@article{qwen,
title={Qwen Technical Report},
author={Jinze Bai and Shuai Bai and Yunfei Chu and Zeyu Cui and Kai Dang and Xiaodong Deng and Yang Fan and Wenbin Ge and Yu Han and Fei Huang and Binyuan Hui and Luo Ji and Mei Li and Junyang Lin and Runji Lin and Dayiheng Liu and Gao Liu and Chengqiang Lu and Keming Lu and Jianxin Ma and Rui Men and Xingzhang Ren and Xuancheng Ren and Chuanqi Tan and Sinan Tan and Jianhong Tu and Peng Wang and Shijie Wang and Wei Wang and Shengguang Wu and Benfeng Xu and Jin Xu and An Yang and Hao Yang and Jian Yang and Shusheng Yang and Yang Yao and Bowen Yu and Hongyi Yuan and Zheng Yuan and Jianwei Zhang and Xingxuan Zhang and Yichang Zhang and Zhenru Zhang and Chang Zhou and Jingren Zhou and Xiaohuan Zhou and Tianhang Zhu},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16609},
year={2023}
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.